[NCLUG] Find, grep and other pointy instruments

[Mark Horning]

Michael Dwyer wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a way to do this:
> 
>   find / -print | grep "everything unless it is a directory which
> includes a specific file"
> 
> Seeing as how regexp is a little too advanced to understand English,
> does anyone have any tools that do this?  I could probably write
> something, but then I'd have to actually *think* and even *code*... and
> I'm hoping someone else has already seen this.
> 
> For what it is worth, I expect it would be found in backup scripts.
> That's what I hope to use it for.  I need a way to mark directories so
> I'm not backing up things that, well, don't need it.  I can place
> directo --
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
>   find / -print | grep DO-NOT-BACKUP | sed -e 's/DO-NOT-BACKUP//' >
> excludelist
> 
> This might work.  Anyone have any other ideas or have seen this done
> somehow?
> 

find / -name 'DO-NOT-BACKUP' -print | sed -e 's/DO-NOT-BACKUP//' > 
excludelist



If you have locate:

locate DO-NOT-BACKUP | sed -e 's/DO-NOT-BACKUP//' > excludelist

locate's advantage is that it has already 'found' all the
files you are looking for and stored them in a database.

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Mark Horning
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